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Deloitte Global predicts in 2016 more than 80 of the world’s 100 largest enterprise software companies will have integrated cognitive technologies into their products, a 25% increase on the prior year.

Of the many dynamics driving cloud computing and enterprise software predictions today, the need for gaining greater insights into corporate-wide performance and the challenges organizations face in keeping pace with customer-driven change in core markets dominate. Greater intelligence and more speed are high on the priority list of enterprise software buyers today. Cloud platforms are an accelerating catalyst of new app development and are proving their value daily by scaling securely to meet enterprises’ complex information and intelligence needs.

Listed below is a roundup of cloud computing and enterprise software predictions for 2016:

Deloitte Global predicts that more than 80 of the world’s 100 largest enterprise software companies will have integrated cognitive technologies into their products, a 25% increase on the prior year.Deloitte predicts that by 2020 about 95% of the top 100 will have incorporated one or more cognitive technologies. Machine learning, natural language processing, and speech recognition will be the most significant cognitive technologies in 2016 according to their Deloitte study. Source: Deloitte Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions, 2016 (free, no opt-in, 84 pp.). The Deloitte site for the report is here.

Enterprise 3D-printing shipments will attain a 64.1% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) through 2019. David Cearley mentioned during his keynote that jet engines are being 3D printed today. He gave the example to illustrate that 3D printing will continue to gain adoption in more demanding manufacturing environments including aerospace, automotive, energy, medical devices and military-based markets and industries. The infographic below provides an overview of the top ten technology trends Gartner is predicting in 2016. Sources: Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 and Top 10 Technology Trends for 2016.

2016: The year we see the real cloud leaders emerge. Eric Knorr of InfoWorld provides an excellent overview of the enterprise cloud computing landscape, relying on forecast data to support his analysis and predictions. One of the most interesting take-aways from his post is how Google Technical Fellow Urs Hölzle predicted that Google’s cloud business could outpace its advertising business in five years. To put that in context, Google made around $65 billion in advertising in 2015. Google’s enterprise cloud computing strategies are predicted to grow significantly in 2016 and challenge market leader Amazon Web Services.

Eight Cloud Computing Predictions For 2016. Information Week’s series of eight predictions presented in slide show format underscore the growing knowledge and sophistication of enterprise cloud computing services buyers. Information Week predicts that containerization and hyper-convergence will become much more widespread in 2016, due primarily to changes in application designs, IoT growth, and the speed at which cloud providers need to address customer requirements.

Six Predictions On Enterprise Software From Scale Venture Partners. Partners with Scale Venture Partners recently provided six predictions of enterprise software for 2016.: Markets Prove, it's Time to Trim the Burn in 2016; Business Apps Will Get Smarter with Machine Learning; Software Moves to Autopilot, the Automation of DevOps; APIs – Not Just for Developers Anymore; An Uptick In Post-Breach Technology Investment and Continued Success of SaaS Sales to SMB.

Six Predictions For Federal IT In 2016.Federal Times’ predicts that cybercrime legislation goes global, intelligence officers go rogue, increased attacks on infrastructure, the Internet of Things will continue to see significant adoption, government entities trust the cloud, and finding tech talent gets even harder. The predictions post quotes Tom Patterson, vice president of global security at Unisys, who thinks 2016 will be the year "rogue intelligence officers will use government-owned spy capabilities for their own purposes." Cloud security technologies including advanced biometric and role-based authentication will also grow rapidly in 2016 as a result.

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